Mary Bates, PhD

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Honey Bees in Trouble

My latest blog post on AAAS Member Central: 'New Challenges to Saving the Honey Bees' (pdf or link).An interaction between antibiotics administered to bee hives may be making bees more vulnerable to toxins from pesticides. Bee keepers are caught between a rock and a hard place, and the future of bees may depend on less chemical interference from humans (even if our intentions are good).